Waterloo

Iraq 2003-2006

No Wins This Weekend for Seattle's Culinary Competitors

​Seattle's representatives in international culinary competitions this weekend didn't fare as well as hoped. Jorge Hernandez, shucker at Elliott's Oyster House, was disqualified from Sunday's World Oyster Invitational and Guinness World Record Shucking Competition in Whistler, B.C. on a techn ... More >>

Greg Nickels Misses His Big Day in OK City

KOMOGreg Nickels has kid hold sign for him​Former Seattle Police Chief Gil Kerlikowske, now the White House Drug Czar, will be there, talking about Closing the Addiction Treatment Gap while widening his stance against legalization. But, for the first time in at least a decade, Seattle won't ha ... More >>

McFinally: McGinn Announces Plan on Public Safety

​At the press conference announcing his candidacy, Mike McGinn was asked about his plans on youth violence--and he deferred his answer to a later date. And while he subsequently put in face time at a number of criminal justice and community safety related events, and opined on how levy funding ... More >>

A (Growing) List Of Seattle Bands Invading SXSW

Hey Marseilles, courtesy jbathimages.com Even in these trying economic times, we got a little hunk of paper this week to talk about Seattle bands we think will make an impression at SXSW this year. Unfortunately, there are way too many we did NOT have room to talk about who were equally deserving ... More >>

Be A Patriot, Wear Your Obama Lapel Pin

During the never-ending Race for the White House, over the past 30 months, one of the many faux controversies Americans were treated to was a fashion statement that a certain politician affected. In short... Oh my God! Barack Obama doesn't wear a flag lapel pin!!! The hullabaloo erupted, as memory ... More >>

Former U.S. Attorney John McKay Takes the Gloves Off on the White House

He has written what sounds like a closing argument for locking up most of the Bush administration.

More Kampai, Less Hassle

A sake tipsheet for impressing your date at a sushi restaurant.

What Is Fun?

A sake tipsheet for impressing your date at a sushi restaurant.

Are We There Yet?

Also: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Assault on Precinct 13, Dolls, Fear and Trembling, The Green Butchers, William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, and Notre Musique.

This Week's Reads

Susanna Clarke, T.C. Boyle, and David Mitchell.

Blonde Ambition

Reese leaves her ditzy dames behind to make social climbing a heroic sport.

Vanity Fair Director Mira Nair

Reese leaves her ditzy dames behind to make social climbing a heroic sport.

Facing Our Losses - Iraq 2004

Washington's toll in Iraq in 2004.

Small is beautiful

The 520 bridge's problems can't be solved by construction alone.

Music writers make mix tapes

Pick one for someone you love, or hate, or yourself.

Serial Killer

Patrick O'Brian prepares to end his Aubrey-Maturin saga—maybe.